Why me?

If you think Billy Campbell as Moses seems like odd casting, you're not alone. He thinks so too. Asked how he landed that role in the NBC miniseries "In the Beginning," which airs Sunday and Monday, the co-star of the ABC series "Once and Again" gets the obvious punch line out of the way - "God knows." Then he goes on to say, "I told NBC I wouldn't cast me in it. They said I had a quality that they thought would be good for Moses. ... Truth be told? I think the quality that I have that's good for Moses is that I have a hit TV show on." And he took the job, Campbell continues, because it was "a nice piece of change to go to Morocco. If I had my druthers, I'd do nothing but movies on location around the world."__The Plain Dealer (November 8, 2000)